Upstream & Down

Rating:
Summary: Armchair fishing
Review: If you're a flyfisher, you really need this book for when the season is closed. But don't expect Walden to give you any excuse to sit home when the weather is bad or the water is high. He approaches fishing with a fly as a higher calling for which a little suffering is to be expected. I loved his descriptions of summer-time angling in low, clear eastern chalk streams, but also those of wading upstream, chest deep in sub-freezing water, casting between ther chucnks of ice and trying to watch his fly floating down among the snowflakes.